After the surfcamp I stayed with Sarah in Sydney for a couple of days.
I went in to the CBD, met Fred who I got to know during Bronze medallion, met the world tallest man and went on some morning swims with Sarah.
But I also just relaxed, had been a while since I last had time to do that 🙂
A couple of hrs after arriving in Sydney I got picked up by a bus to go to a surfcamp 2 hrs south of Sydney!
It was a 5 day surf camp organised by Surf Camp Australia.
I really enjoyed it and had an awesome time! If there was something to complain about it would have been the fact that there was just to many Swedes, I dont even know how many we were, but I didnt go to Australia to meet Swedish people… But actually me, some other swedish people and some from Denmark spoke about going to a surfcamp in Europe together later, and that would be much harder to organise if we didnt live that close to eachother.
So the following 5 days was almost only about surfing, so fun!
But of course we had some hours when we just chilled together and I even got out on a few runs! 🙂
When I arrived in Perth I went directly to Pia (who I met in Bali and also who I drove on Great Ocean rd with). She’s working as a Au Pair in Perth and I got to stay with her lovely host family.
We went to Perths CBD, to Kings Park which was beautiful with a great view. Then we headed to Fremantle, another nice part of Perth. We had an amazing day together. Thereafter when we got back to her place, we had an awesome night with her host parents and some of their friends! So fun to actually get to experience some true Aussie things.
The day after was my last day in Perth and we went to Rottnest Island. There is some beautiful beaches there and the water is so clear! One special thing about it, is that there is roads on the island but except for the police car and refuse lorry-there is no cars. You can also see the Quokka which is an animal you only can see on Rottnest and some other islands on Australias West coast.
In the evening I flew to Sydney which took more than 4 hrs, and the time difference was 3 hrs. Australia is bigger than you think, trust me!
The day after the sharkdive I started driving towards Perth with Judith, a German girl I met over Facebook. Her car was our home for the week, she had all cooking equipment and a mattress in the car so that was awesome! Each night we just stayed at a rest area or a campervan park, saved a lot of money doing that.
We had a lot of stops on the way. Saw some beautiful beaches, cliffs but especially we got to experience the feeling of nothing 🙂 For example we crossed the nullarbor which is a loooong drive with nothing to see. And we drove on Australia’s longest straight road -“90 mile straight”- 145.6 km.
One day we decided to do a little detour- just on about 250km haha.
We drove from the coast up north to wave rock and then back down again, can’t say I think it was worth the extra drive, but now I’ve seen it at least 🙂
We went to two national parks, Cape Le Grand National park and Williams Bay National Park, it was BEAUTIFUL.
One week and 3900km later we finally arrived in Perth. 🙂
One small detail I forgot to tell about in the last post was that I actually had something planned in Port Lincoln 😛
I did a cagedive with Great White Sharks or White pointers as they say here in Aussie 🙂
This is something I’ve always wanted to do and I was so excited before!!!!
When I booked it, it felt so good, I was going with the company “Adventure bay charters” that did the tours with only 18 people instead of Calypso star who had 42 spots on the boat. This ment I could dive for a much longer time than if I would have booked the other boat.
The only thing was that Calypso star fed the sharks and Adventure Bay Charters only used music to attract them. Obviously all sharks swam to the other boat and we just got to see the sharks swimming past us sometimes….
Regret I didnt book the other boat, so I’m a bit disapointed, but still I saw GREAT WHITE SHARKS 🙂
Now I just have another reason to go to South Africa or even back to Australia 😛
The day after Judith and I started our roadtrip towards Perth, which has been great this far! Will write more about it when we reach Perth 🙂
About 2 weeks ago I arrived in Agnes water/town of 1770 where I met some really nice people! The first day was spent with Maura from Holland at the hostel, we just relaxed and did things that backpackers do- plan the coming days, eat cheap meals and wash the same clothes over and over again (no I’m not getting tired of wearing the same clothes day in and day out, haha)
She left the day after for new adventures. But luckily some new backpackers had moved in, so Charlotte from Holland, Martina from Germany and me went to go surfing in the morning. Because of the cyclone the beach was closed due to too rough surf and the surf lesson was cancelled.
Agnes water is like the smallest town ever and there isn’t much more to do there than to surf, so we went to the information centre to at least find something to do in the rain. After some talking we realized that the person at the information centre had dated Charlotte’s brother, how small can the world be!?!?
But to get to the point, we ended up renting bikes and another girl from Sweden, Malin, also joined us. Even though the weather was crap we still had a fun time 🙂
The day after we did a new try for surfing but the conditions hadn’t changed… So we had another lazy day at the hostel.
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Thereafter I had to leave to go to Hervey Bay where a new adventure waited. Me and a group of 30 people went to the worlds biggest sand island, Fraser Island, for three days. We drove around in the sand, swam in lakes and had lots of fun. But I have to say that this definitely wasn't the best trip I've done. The group didn't bond together too good which I consider as one of the most important things for a successful trip. But in the same time I don't regret I did it 🙂
Then I went to Brisbane and met Kris, Ben and Kate from Bronze medallion. We went bowling and Kate, I and her sister Lara made a bubblewrap dress for Kate. I patrolled Broadwater and went to Dreamworld with Lara. It was really nice to catch up with them again, just wish I had more time to spend with them.
From Brisbane I Spontaneously went to Melbourne to catch up with Jayson, Brooke, Ash, Nic and Daniel who I met up in Cairns. I got to try some Australian food that I liked- Chicken Kiev and Chicken Parma. And we went to Phillip Island where I got to go on boogie boards (that you can find in most Australian homes) and Nic even tried to teach me how to surf, so nice of him!
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Spagetti on toast- DISGUSTING!
Then I got to borrow Nics car so I could go to Sovereign Hills (gold mines) and thereafter Brooke took me to the zoo. Had so much more fun than when I went to Australia zoo by myself! 🙂
I had an AWESOME Aussie time with my Aussie friends, wish I wouldn't need to leave this fast… And it's thanks to them it got so good, don't know how to thank them enough! Really hope I will see them soon again 🙂
Now Im in Port Lincoln to soon start a roadtrip to Perth with a girl I got in contact with over Facebook 🙂
I have now been in Australia for more than 7 weeks and I haven’t posted anything about it, I know I’m the worst blogger ever…
But to my defence I’ve simply just been too busy 🙂
This is the first day with crap weather, when I don’t have anything planned. Or actually I had, but because of the cyclon warning all boats to Whitsundays are cancelled 😦
So here I am, in Airlie beach and have nothing to do… Guess I will have to skip the trip everybody talks about (whitsundays) and save that for my next visit in Australia…
But do u know what that means? I have some time to update about my blog about my time in Aussie this far.
Brisbane and the Gold Coast
To start with I did the Bronze Medallion, the course you have to do to become a surf lifesaver here in OZ.
That was so much fun! Everyday we did boardpaddling, swam, ran and did heaps of other lifesaving stuf.
Most people stayed at the surf club over night so in the evening we watched movies, played beach soccer, went on bush-adventures and laughed a lot!
I also went home to Kates (from the course) place for a few days and got to experience an Aussie home and thanks to Kates family I had a really nice time!
When the Bronze was finished I went to surfers paradise for a couple of days and patroled the beach in Broadwater one day.
Sydney
Thereafter I flew down to Sarah in Sydney and stayed at her place for about 2 weeks. We did a lot of ocean swims, patroled a beach, celebrated Swedish and Austalian christmas, saw the fireworks on New Years eve in Sydney harbour and had LOTS of fun. During the time I also went to Blue Mountains and pretty much walked around in the national park for 2 days, it was beautiful and thanks to my camera I didnt feel too alone even though I was by my self, haha.
Tasmania
In beginning of January I went to Tasmania with Kajetan (German), Carola(Italian) and Tristan (Belgian) who I got to know though the group “Backpackers in Australia” on facebook.
We met up in Hobart and rented a car together, that truly is the best way of traveling!
We saw some of the worlds most beautiful beaches, lots of waterfalls, national parks. We truly had an adventure.
We even accidently managed to “steele” someone else´s backpack… To make the long story short- before we picked up the car in Hobart we put all our things in one big pile at the hostel. We met eachother one day before our roadtrip began and when we had picked up the car we went back to the hostel and just grabed everything in the pile. Since there were 4 backpacks in the pile it seamed to be right. The only problem was that Carola didnt have a backpack…
So when we found out what a big mistake we had done we called the hostel and the same day Elliot got reunited with his backpack.
Melbourne to Adelaide via Great Ocean Rd
After our roadtrip I flew directly to Melbourne and there I met Pia who I got to know in Bali! We managed to book the same hostel AGAIN whitout knowing about it. I was there during a heat wave so I didn´t do too much. But from what I saw it seamed to be a really nice place and if I go here on exchange year I think Melbourne might be a good place to study in.
Pia, I and Lejla (from Sweden, who I got to know through Sarah in Sydney) rented a car in Melbourne and drove via Great Ocean Rd to Adelaide. We stoped at all placed you are supposed to stop at and some more 🙂
We stoped at a lot of beaches, swam, saw wild kangaroos, koalas and emus, had BBQs, saw the twelve apostles and in the end we went to Grampians national park, though becuase of a huge bushfire the entire national park was closed 😦
Cairns
To start with I went with Prodive on a liveaboard boat on the Great Barrier reef for three days. We did 11 dives, saw sharks, turtles and heaps of other fish.
If I compare Great Barrier reef to Bali and Egypt (Red sea) I dont think it was that spectacular as everybody sais. It was different, here there were more sharks and turtles, but less of other fish as for example morays, lion fish, manta rays and dolphins.
But this wasn’t all, on Australia day I went on a waterfall tour to tablelands south of Cairns. There I met some awesome people from Melbourne who I ended up spending the entire day with. We swam in waterfalls, slid down for waterfall slides, saw mini turtles, a platypus and had a great time out in Cairns in the evening.
The day after I went on a tour up to Daintree national park which was good, but not even close to beeing as good as the waterfall tour.
In the night I went on the greyhound bus down to Airlie beach where I am now.
Airlie Beach
As I said my trip to Whitsundays is cancelled…
So I’m moving on to Town of 1770 tonight and hope for better luck from now and on.
From now and on I will try my best to update the blog a bit more often! 🙂
For a few days ago I left wondeful Bali, I have just not been able to write a new post since then…
I had a great time in Bali!
The first thing I did after arriving in Bali was to go to a hostel in Kuta and sleep, that didnt go that well because of my jetlag though…
But finally it was a new day and I went to Legian and “The Island hotel” where I was supposed to stay for another three nights.
This was such a good hostel! Awesome people and a really nice place. Just look at this: 
Immediately after like 15 mins at the hostel I found some really nice people to spend the day with.
Pia from Germany, Jerome from France and Philip from Callfornia went to the beach and thereafter we went shopping.
And eventhough the prices was low from the beginning we managed to bargain a lot, and we had a great time!
In the evening we got massage and had some lovely indonesian dinner.
Luna and Anna who massaged me and Pia, they were just so nice and had such lovely dreams!
The next couple of days I went diving for my advanced open water diver certificate. First I did a deep dive, an underwater photography dive and a night dive. It was great and the best thing was the 4 Manta rays I got to see!!! 🙂 But thats not all, the people on the boat were really nice which made my entire day awesome! The second day I went to Tulamben and did a wreck dive and a navigation dive, and during that time I got to see 2 SHARKS! 🙂 You cant imagine how happy I got!
When I had completed my Advanced open water diver course I had an adventurous day with Philip, by now Pia and Jerome had left Legian. We started the day with a walk at the beach, then we took a bus up to Ubud where we payed about $36 to a person who thereafter drove us around pretty much wherever we wanted for the whole day. We went to a rice terrace, a tempel, the market in Ubud, the monkey forest and the elephant cave. Thereafter he drove us back to Legian. We had a great day but got really tired in the end 🙂 The day after was my last day in Bali which I had planned to spend by going around to even more places, but I got so tired of the trip with Philip, it got to be a day at the beach, just recovering.
After about 26 hours of traveling I’ve finally reached my first destination- Bali!
It’s midnight so I havn’t seen that much yet, but of what I have seen, it feels like I will enjoy my stay here 🙂
The travel went pretty well, only the last flight was late.
What I got most tired of was the hours of waiting at the airports, that was also when I started feeling a bit lonely…
But both on my first and third (last) flight I ended up sitting next to some swedish people, so at that time it went on pretty good 🙂
Look forward to a really exciting day tomorrow!
Hope it’s not too cold back home 🙂
On a café at Arlanda Airport and enjoying my last saffron bun for this winter. I can’t understand it, but tomorrow it’s summer!
My first destination is Bali, the plan is to go the next diving course there- “Advanced open water diver” and to experience Indonesia 🙂 Thereafter, I will go to Australia where I won’t go to just one special place. Since I will be there for 3 months, I hope to see most of the country 🙂
Totally I will be away for 100 days and I have no idea whats going to happen, what I will see and where I will be 😛
But what I do think I know is that I will have an awesome time =D
I will miss a lot of people A LOT, but now I will just be away about half the time compared to when I travelled to NZ 🙂
Hope you guys have an awesome winter and I will see you in march again.
Now it’s less than an hour until the plane departs!!
Adventure Down Under 